It's the most important monthly economic report in the race for the White House. And April's employment numbers didn't provide President Obama a lot to brag about.

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Jobs report crucial in White House race

“In a second term,” Mitt Romney darkly warned in a speech to the National Rifle Association last month, President Obama “would be unrestrained by the demands of reelection.” But Romney was cagey about what, exactly, that would mean: His only specific prediction was that Obama would “remake” the Supreme Court. So it was helpful when, at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner a week ago, the president opened up about the “secret agenda” he has planned. “In my first term,” he joked, “we ended the war in Iraq; in my second term, I will win the war on Christmas. . . . In my first term, we passed health-care reform; in my second term, I guess I’ll pass it again.” Read full article > >

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If Obama wins, what would he do in a second term?

Philadelphia Phillies fans are like unwanted houseguests: They show up often and stay too long. At Nationals Park, they also essentially raid the refrigerator, steal the silverware and kick the dog on their way out. Many are about as well-mannered as a pack of hungry bears would be at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. Read full article > >

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Washington Nationals, and their fans, can make statements this weekend

Before law school, politics and the White House, and long before he met Michelle , Barack Obama was a smart, soul-searching college student in New York — and one of those maddening, emotionally-distant dudes you remember from your early 20s. Read full article > >

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Newt Gingrich halts his White House campaign, but falls short of a full-throated endorsement for presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

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Gingrich suspends presidency bid

Have you heard the joke about the Secret Service? The one in which President Obama told a ballroom full of reporters at last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner that he had to leave early to get his security detail “home in time for their new curfew.” Read full article > >

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Cartagena prostitution scandal is no laughing matter to Secret Service alumni

Tuesday marked a noisy return to the national stage for the Occupy movement, which had been dormant for much of the winter. Activists called it “A Day Without the 99 Percent.” But as protesters across the country responded to the movement’s call for a general strike, the 99 percenters seemed to be everywhere: marching to the White House and through Midtown Manhattan; smashing windows in downtown Seattle; and forming picket lines at restaurants, banks and hospitals. Read full article > >

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Occupy movement returns for May Day protests in D.C., New York and around U.S.

On May 1, 2011, President Obama addressed the nation from the East Room of the White House to announce that the United States had killed Osama bin Laden. Now, one year later, with the presidential campaigns in full swing, the Navy SEAL operation that killed the al-Qaeda leader has found its way to the center of a quickly intensifying political battle between Obama and the GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney (R). Read full article > >

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On bin Laden anniversary, Obama, Romney campaigns come out swinging

On May 1, 2011, President Obama addressed the nation from the East Room of the White House to announce that the United States had killed Osama bin Laden. Now, one year later, with the presidential campaigns in full swing, the Navy SEAL operation that killed the al-Qaeda leader has found its way to the center of a quickly intensifying political battle between Obama and the GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney (R). Read full article > >

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On bin Laden anniversary, Obama, Romney campaigns come out swinging

House Republicans and Democrats expressed optimism Friday about sending a cybersecurity bill to President Obama this year, despite significant disagreements with the Senate and the White House. The House delivered a strong bipartisan vote Thursday for the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act despite a White House veto threat. The bill would encourage companies and the federal government to share information collected on the Internet to help prevent electronic attacks from cybercriminals, foreign governments and terrorists. Read full article > >

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House hopeful about a cybersecurity bill

Yes, the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is decadent and depraved. It is elitist and shallow, smug and insidery, a three-day orgy of corporate preening and celebrity suck-up so far removed from its earnest D.C. journalism roots as to be completely meaningless. Read full article > >

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White House Correspondents’ weekend: You can’t fight it, so just go with the flow (photos)

A senior White House official said Sunday that President Obama wants to strike the “appropriate balance” in dealing with a Chinese dissident who fled house arrest last Sunday and reportedly is under American protection inside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Read full article > >

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The year 1935 marked the Washington arrival of Joseph Wright Alsop V, a hefty, amusing, arrogant, 25-year-old reporter for the old New York Herald Tribune who quickly managed to take the town by storm. It helped that the occupants of the White House were known to the young man affectionately as “Cousin Franklin” and “Cousin Eleanor,” and they weren’t above slipping juicy morsels of inside information to their blood relative. Read full article > >

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‘The Columnist’ provides insightful look at D.C. journalist Joseph Alsop

Republicans have ignored a White House veto threat and passed a bill to keep interest rates on millions of federal student loans from doubling this summer.

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How did former White House gate-crasher Tareq Salahi decide to run for governor of Virginia ? In his own words: “I woke up thinking, ‘Someone should do this.’ And I thought, ‘Wait a minute. I’m someone!’ ” Read full article > >

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Alexandra Petri: Tareq Salahi is running for governor?